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�(16� Ld _ WILL AND DECREE RECORD 20081 —The Augustine Co., Grand Ialand, Nebr. WILL ANA DECREE IN THE COUNTY COURT OF HALL COUNTY, NEBRASKA IN THE MATTER OF ) THE ESTATE OF ) FINAL DECREE FRED THOMSSEN, deceased ) STATE OF NEBRASKA) At a session of the County Court held in and for said County of Hall in SS the State of Nebraska, this 11th day of June, 1947, Present:Charles Bossert, COUNTY OF HALL ) County Judge. BE IT REMEMBERED: that on the 19th day of May, 1947, Anita Stoltenberg, Administratrix With Will Annexed of the Estate of Fred Thomssen deceased, filed in this Court her final account as such Administratrix and a petition praying that said account be allowed, for a decree of heirship, an order of distrubiton, a final settlement thereon and discharge. For these purposes, the 11th day of June, 1947, at 10 o'clock A.M. at the County.Court Room in said County was assigned as the time and place for hearing said petition, examining and allowing said account, and it was ordered that notice of the pendency of said petition be given to all persons interested in said estate by publishing such notice in the Grand Island Independent, a legal newspaper printed in said County, for three weeks prior to said day of hearing, and it appears by proof on file that said notice was given as ordered by Court and that no objections to said final account have been made or filed. Upon examination of the record and the evidence in this matter, and being duly advised in the premises, the Court finds as follows: FIRST That Fred Thomssen departed this life on the 22nd day of May, 1946, in Hall County, Nebraska testate, and at the time of his death he was a resident of Hall County, Nebraska. SECOND That on the 29th day of June, 1946, Anita Stoltenberg filed in this Court an instrument purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of said Fred Thomssen, deceased, wherein Bertha Thomssen was named Executrix, and a petition offering said Will for probate, alleging that said Fred Thomssen departed this life on May 22, 1946, and that said Bertha Thomssen wife of said page 2 Fred Thomssen, deceased, preceded him in death, and on the 29th day of June, 1946, an order of this Court was made therein assigning the 24th day of July, 1946, at 10 o'clock A.M. in the County Court Room in said County as the time and place for hearing said petition, approving said Will and admitting the same to nrobate, and ordering that notice of the pendency of said petition and hearing thereon be given to all persons interested in said matter by publishing said notice in the Grand Island Independent, a legal newspaper printed in said County, for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing, and it.appears by proof on file that notice of said order was so given. THIRD The Court further finds that on the 24th day of July, 1946, said instrument was proven, allowed and admitted to probate as the Last Will and Testament of said Fred Thomssen, deceased, which last Will and Testament is in words as follows, to -wit: THE LAST WILL OF FRED THOMSSEN I, Fred Thomssen, of Hall County, Nebraska, make this my Last Will hereby revoking all former `rills. I hereby appoint my wife Bertha Thomssen executrix of this Will without bond. To my said wife Bertha Thomssen, I give and devise all my property, real estate and personal property for and during the term of her natural life. I also grant unto her the right and the power to sell or exchange or convey by deed or otherwise any and all of the property which I leave her and shw shall not account to any person, Court of Judge for the proceeds of such sale, exchange or transfer and she shall have the right to use such proceeds in any way she may see fit. All rights and power granted to my wife shall be exercised by her without interference on the part of any person, Court or Judge and at no time shall she be required to ask leave or license to make such sale, conveyance or transfer. In the event that she does not fully exercise said power on all my real estate then the rest and residue of my real estate not transferred by her, I give and devise to my daughter Anita Stoltenberg and to her heirs forever. Done at Grand Island this 2nd day of June A.D. 1923 Fred Thomssen Page 3 The foregoing was at the date thereof signed, sealed published and declared by said testator as and for his Last Will in our presence and we in his presence and at his request and in the presence of each other have signed our names as witnesses hereof. Elizabeth C. Mayer Herman F. Buckow Arthur C. Mayer and thereto attached is the following certificate: CERTIFICATE OF PROBATE OF WILL STATE OF NEBRASKA) SS. At a Session of the County Court held in the County Court Room in Grand COUNTY OF -HALL ) Island, in said County, on the 24th day of July, A.D., 1946, Present Charles Bossert, County Judge In the Matter of the Estate of Fred Thomssen, deceased, I Charles Bossert, Judge of the County Court, in and for said County, do hereby certify that on the 29th day of June, 1946, the instrument purporting to the last will and testament of Fred Thomssen, deceased, was filed for probate in this Court. That on the 24th day of July, 1946, said instrument to which this certificate is attached was duly proved, probated and allowed as the last will and testament of the real and personal estate of said Fred Thomssen, deceased, and the same was ordered to be recorded in the records of the Court aforesaid. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the County Court, this 24th day of July, 1946. Charles Bossert (SEAL) County Judge. and said Anita Stoltenberg was appointed Administratrix with said Will Annexed upon her furnishing bond in the sum of $1,000.00 as ordered by this Court which bond was furnished and approved; the Court further finds that said Fred Thomssen at the time of his death, was a widower, his wife Bertha Thomssen, having preceeded him in death, and that he left the following heir -at -law and only page 4 heir -at -law, to -wit: Anita Stoltenberg, his daughter, who was over the age of 21 years.